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successful remedy unless it be starvation by general refusal to 
sow their favorite food plants in districts where they are present. 
Will damage corn this year locally, but not enough to affect the 
general crop. 
Farmers’ Review, Aug. 17, 1887. A Crusade against Insects. 
Correspondent from Red Bud, Randolph Co., Ill., advises con¬ 
certed action by neighborhoods against chinch bugs and other in¬ 
sects; closely mowing old stubbles, weeds, and grain left standing, 
before plowing, and burning them clean when dry. Would also 
remove old fences and clear and burn off the ground before replac¬ 
ing the fence. Speaks favorably of strips of oats, and especially 
of flax, between wheat and corn, and of the use of lime fertilizers. 
J[ohnson], B. F.—Our Illinois Correspondence. (Cultivator and 
Country Gentleman, Aug. 18, 1887, v. 52, p. 636. 
A wet season is the only efficient check on the chinch bug. For 
the last fifty years these insects have appeared in Central Illinois 
during the dry seasons and disappeared in the wet seasons. 
Chamberlain, W. I.—The Iowa Drouth. Definite Facts. (Cul¬ 
tivator and Country Gentleman, Aug. 25 and Sept. 1, 1887, 
v. 52, pp. 652, 690.) 
Chinch bugs first noticed in Hungarian July 13. Stopped 
growth for two weeks. Second brood destroyed the grass. The 
foung bugs in^ four cubic inches of earth with Hungarian roots 
lumbered 3,025 by count. Farmers questioning advisability of 
rising spring wheat or Hungarian. Field corn on college farm 
lamaged about twenty-five per cent.; fodder corn on turf about 
seventy-five per cent. Hungarian yielded only half a ton per 
icre on very rich soil. Three furrows plowed three feet apart and 
mlverized by dragging log failed to arrest movement of chinch 
mgs, although many died in the furrows. Attempt to destroy in 
Hungarian by mowing the grass and burning partly failed on ac¬ 
count of wet weather. Bugs killed with kerosene emulsion on 
mter rows of corn by using garden force-pump from wagon. Con- 
ludes that man is really and practically powerless against this 
usect when it appears in force in a dry season. Believes the 
nly remedy is to refrain from raising its favorite crops, espe- 
ially spring wheat and Hungarian. Both corn and Hungarian 
inch worse attacked on sod than on old ground. 
Statistical Report of the Illinois State Board of Agricult¬ 
ure for August, 1887. Circular 137, pp. 15-28. Cor¬ 
respondents’ Remarks. 
Clinton, Craivford, Cumberland, Douglas, Fayette, Franklin „ 
Ham ilton, Jefferson, Johnson, Madison, Saline, Shelby, Washing- 
m, Wayne, and Whiteside Co's. Corn damaged by drouth and 
iiinch bugs; nearly ruined in many localities. Alexander Co. 
'ats injured. Jaekson Co. Rain has checked chinch bugs. 
facoupin and Perry Co's. Small grain injured. Marion Co . 
